On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 collver1@comcast.net wrote:

> I notice that some packages have absolute paths hard coded into them.  In
> this case it is pkgsrc/mail/sendmail (which has no maintainer), and has
> several spots where /etc is used rather than /usr/pkg/etc.

I didn't test this, but where does it reference /etc ?

Also, be sure to not force "/usr/pkg/etc" either. It should use
PKG_SYSCONFDIR (with CONF_FILES as needed).

It also should use RCD_SCRIPTS to install an rc script.

> Does anyone know if this is intentional?  I am willing to make a patch to
> pkgsrc/mail/sendmail "pkg"ize the paths if that is the right thing to do.

Also, regarding the subject line: what does PR #20852 have to do with
"paths in packages"?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/